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Governor, Senate and House all at odds over budget plans
By Lacie Pierson, Herald- Dispatch

CHARLESTON — The 134 members of the 83rd West Virginia Legislature are preparing to return to Charleston for a special session Thursday with the goal of leaving the state capital with a resolution for fiscal year 2018.

The special session will begin at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 4, three weeks after Democrat Gov. Jim Justice vetoed a budget bill passed by the Republican...

FOSTER — Boone County’s school board on Monday voted to eliminate the equivalent of 58 positions for next school year.

Boone schools Superintendent Jeff Huffman said the public school system’s revenue is expected to drop about $5 million from this fiscal year to next fiscal year. Each fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30, so each contains a single school year.

Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday signed a bill allowing public school systems to offer home-schoolers and other students full-time K-12 virtual education, and vetoed legislation that would’ve let home and private school students attend public vocational education schools without being charged more than public schoolers.

Educators, state officials not concerned about standards redo with HB 2711
By Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette-Mail

House Bill 2711 says the West Virginia Board of Education is “prohibited from implementing the Common Core academic standards.”

Yet few education leaders that the Gazette-Mail interviewed seem concerned that the bill would actually require the state to change its largely Common Core math and English language arts standards -- even if...